Table of Contents

Out of Africa; ragtime and its influence; from New Orleans to Chicago; the virtuoso - Louis Armstrong; the rise and fall of the big band; the composer - Duke Ellington; be-bop and hard-bop; the innovator - Miles Davis and his influence; free jazz and avant-garde; jazz-rock fusion and its aftermath.

Promotional Information

By the author of "The Chronicle of Jazz".

About the Author

Mervyn Cooke is Professor in Music at the University of Nottingham. Among his other books are The Cambridge Companion to Jazz, The Hollywood Film Music Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera, Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, A History of Film Music and The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten.